An Open Source Flat Pack Robot Arm That's As Easy To Build As Ikea Furniture

An anonymous reader writes The MeArm is a flat-pack robot arm. It has been developed in a very short time frame as the creators have been able to tap into crowd development by open sourcing all of the designs. Because of this it's exploded around the world with builders on every continent (bar Antarctica) and there are even people manufacturing them to sell in Peru, Taiwan and South Africa. MeArm manufacture them in the UK and export to distributors around the world, including Open Source pioneers like Adafruit and Hackaday in the USA. They're currently running a Kickstarter for a controller to take it out of the 'Hackersphere' and into the living room. They doubled their target in the first week and are still going strong so it's looking like they will be the first consumer flat pack robot kit in the world! Controller or not, you can download the arm from Thingiverse, and follow the project at Hackaday.

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good grief

[Anonymous Coward]

these are 5$ eBay servos with a few plastic sticks.

I'm getting old, I seriously don't understand what people are getting out of this anymore. I'm just jaded I guess, I'm like a Pak Protector now. I can look at something and I know exactly step by step what it is and how to make one. So I just don't care anymore.

Re:uArm

[bruce_the_loon]

Only in the sense that it is also a striking copy of every robotic arm in existence. The mechanical design is significantly different to the uArm. Compare MeArm versus uArm and look at the design of the support and actuator arms.